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None of the other games matter. They just need to do their job and win. That’s it.

Things have gone sideways for the Ethniki yet again for another qualification cycle. We landed in a difficult group though getting Sweden was slighlty better than some other Pot 2 teams and other groups at the time ie. Switzerland and Ukraine based on their pre Euro performances. The injuries to key players especially Fortounis (yet again) is very hard to overcome given his technical and attacking ability that we lack. Also missing Manolas, Siovas, and Sokratis due to utter stupidity hurts our cause too. Coaching has cost us a couple points already as JVS got everything wrong vs Georgia in what was a must 3pts and now with Sweden winning it really sticks out! I just hope our luck can eventually turn around but the EPO are going to have to find a smart coach who knows how to work with our players and doesnt get involved in this mickey mouse BS that JVS has initiated with our key players that have been banned from the team. We are just hurting ourselves over and over from after the 2014 World Cup. The NT has to be qualifying regularly for major tournaments especially with the expansion of the EUROS and we missed twice. Its frigin UNACCEPTABLE!!

That tie against Georgia is coming back to haunt us already....

Sakkari looking very good in Flushing Meadows She sweeps Petra Kvitova 6-4, 6-3 She will face Canada's Bianca Andreescu next in the round of 16.

Sweden beating Spain means their match vs Greece now takes on a greater significance. Sweden on 9 pts after 3 games. Now that they beat Spain, they will be looking at top spot in the Group so they will be super motivated and confident to beat us, Kosovo and Georgia. With 6 out of 6 wins they just need to beat us in Sweden on match day 7 and top spot is theirs regardless of their match with Spain away in the last game. We must not lose to them in Greece otherwise we are chasing Spain for 2nd spot, and that will be extremely difficult.

Not for nothing, we started off the Euro 2004 qualifying stage with 2 losses

This was Spains first World Cup qualifier loss since 1993 a 1 nil loss in Denmark. What a great run...